Linde India commences ASU production at SAIL's Rourkela steel plant

Linde India Ltd, one of the leading industrial gas manufacturers in India, has recently started commercial production at Rourkela steel plant of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). Linde India Ltd has informed BSE that pursuant to a long term gas supply contract entered into with SAIL in the year 2009 for supply of 2,600 tonne per day (tpd) of oxygen, nitrogen and argon gases to meet the customer's incremental demand arising from the expansion of its steel-making capacity at Rourkela, Linde India had undertaken construction of two 853 tonnes per day Air Separation Units (ASU) at Rourkela Steel Plant of SAIL.
 
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The company said that it has now commissioned one of the 853 tonnes per day ASU at Rourkela Steel Plant and the second 853 tonnes per day ASU is in final stages of commissioning.